Exodus’ Mike Ensley Unprepared For Alan Colmes Radio Show Debate

Poor Mike Ensley. Next time he debates in a mainstream venue he needs to read the Exodus website. He was totally unprepared for the Alan Colmes Show and spent much of the debate denying undeniable facts, squirming or disavowing quotes made by his loose cannon boss, Alan Chambers. He claimed that the host, Alan Colmes, and I were taking words out of context or making things up – but the problem is, the proof is on the Exodus website or part of the historical record.

Sorry Mike, but if you are going to speak to people who have not been brainwashed, at least do your homework. I know it must be difficult to defend the scientifically bankrupt “What to Do When Your Child is Gay” or argue that Exodus does not believe gays are evil or demon possessed, when your organization promotes spiritual warfare.

The cold facts can be stubborn and unforgiving.

Here is my message to Mike: If you are too preoccupied to know your topic and what the organization you work for actually represents – just tell the truth. It is amazing how easy interviews are when you believe in what you are saying and can speak with a clear conscience. When you ultimately leave Exodus, Mike, you will finally understand this simple truth.

Finally, Mike, the GLBT community will be here for you if and when you are ready to come out. We will show you the unconditional love and support that you will never find at Exodus. And, the best part is – when you do interviews with the media, you won’t have to remember the lies you told before the commercial break.

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Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

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“Finally, Mike, the GLBT community will be here for you if and when you are ready to come out. We will show you the unconditional love and support that you will never find at Exodus.”

Love ya Wayne, but speak for yourself LOL

I’d rather Mike Ensley’s soul to be owned and operated by Alan Chambers for eternity. He deserves nothing less than that kind of misery.

Michael AirhartMay 23, 2008 at 5:12 pm -

Scott,

I believe that much of the public sees past Exodus’ insincere god-talk and its idols of material prosperity. Their own TV, radio, and webcast appearances expose Ensley and his colleague Randy Thomas as miserable, fearful, and insecure.

I don’t wish misery upon them — they choose misery for themselves, now and in the hereafter, through their rejection of grace, their convoluted and self-defeating legalisms, their correctness, and their self-isolation from the people whom they claim to care about.

And last year, the “ex-gay survivors” at Ex-gay Watch were defending Alan Chambers, saying Exodus had nothing to do with “The Pink Swastika”. I’m convinced Ex-Gay Watch and Exodus are one and the same now. Both groups are cults.

WilliamJune 1, 2008 at 9:24 am -

“I’m convinced Ex-Gay Watch and Exodus are one and the same now. Both groups are cults.”

In that case, Scott, it sounds as though it would be pretty easy to convince you of some bloody silly things. Whoever it was over at Ex-Gay Watch that exonerated Alan Chambers presumably wrote in good faith, giving Chambers the benefit of the doubt. Was the link already there on Exodus International’s website at that time, anyway? Can you remember? And to categorize Ex-Gay Watch as a cult is simply preposterous.

What I’d do, if I were you, would be to get in touch with whoever it was at Ex-Gay Watch that absolved Chambers of involvement or acquiescence in Scott Lively’s vicious propaganda and draw his/her attention to the link to Lively’s cranky essay. And do it NOW – QUICK – before anyone has a chance to delete the link on Exodus’s website and then pretend that it was never there.

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